Gershom notes that he is able to eat normally once again and mentions that "Miss Hall" (presumably nurse Maria "Hallie" Hall) supervises his section and allows him to order whatever food he wants. He goes on to describe his wound with precision, writing that he was shot in the chin, damaging his lower jaw bone. Gershom promises to send home the largest of the four bone fragments removed from his jaw "so that our folks as well as your self will have apart of what was once G W Mattoon to remember him by..."
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